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Solar isn't the solution. The free market will just keep slapping charge after tarrif after access fee until it becomes a similar cash cow. We are all doomed because capitalists never want to lose profit therefore they will make renewables just as expensive just to emulate previous cash cows and gently caress you. Energex in Queensland is pulling this shot and now electric companies charge you for having panels.
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EXAKT Science posted:Strap the capitalists to the blades of windmills, imo I wonder what the energy storage capacity of molten capitalists is compared to molten salts.
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Anidav posted:We are all doomed because capitalists never want to lose profit therefore they will make renewables just as expensive just to emulate previous cash cows and gently caress you. It's worse than that. It's not about losing profits, it's about losing increasing profits. Last year we made $10million and this year we only made $12million? Not good enough 
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GoldStandardConure posted:I might be wrong but I think this is one of the things that QM is working on in his regional group. Yeah I believe there is currently a strong effort to change this in NSW at least. Which as a member I support.
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Hunter Water have a coupe of great pics to show just how much rain they've got up that way 
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Birb Katter posted:Hunter Water have a coupe of great pics to show just how much rain they've got up that way Wow
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Birb Katter posted:Hunter Water have a coupe of great pics to show just how much rain they've got up that way 
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Anidav posted:Solar isn't the solution. The free market will just keep slapping charge after tarrif after access fee until it becomes a similar cash cow. We are all doomed because capitalists never want to lose profit therefore they will make renewables just as expensive just to emulate previous cash cows and gently caress you. Energex in Queensland is pulling this shot and now electric companies charge you for having panels. Time to go off-grid and worship the 'good capitalists' like Elon Musk. I know which side I'll be on in the capital wars (the side with self landing rockets)
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Never change Transfield....quote:Managers at the Manus Island detention centre have been accused of flying an employee out of Papua New Guinea to avoid the country’s justice system after he allegedly robbed a local bar before driving off and crashing his car. http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jan/08/manus-detention-centre-bosses-accused-flying-out-employee-who-allegedly-robbed-bar
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Being above the law sounds fun.
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The government does not discuss on-rape matters.
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https://m.soundcloud.com/user-456894491/050116-nye-starwarstfabashed-on-gas-busted-trolling-snake-eyez-training-dazeremix Hot off the presses its a brand new ep of the Conez and Doh show: we discuss the triggering gender politics of Star Wars, argue about Chris Gayle and legal issues surrounding social media threats and satire, my encounter with the cops, doh gets beaten up with a hard hat on, the gender politics of happy meals
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more like conezzz and doze show
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Birdstrike posted:more like conezzz and doze show Haha not bad
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Am I too late to talk about how the one big problem I have with the Greens is their oppostion to nuclear power and GMOs, and that I hope di Natale's stance leads to some kind of reevaulation of that? It's such a terrifyingly Luddite position, the idea of cutting off useful avenues of technology that can power cities, save lives, and fight climate change because they don't fit in with a Romantic, Naturalist view of the world. I still vote Green because of refugees, but it's such a huge blindspot, and one that is even more terrifying in a country as isolated as Australia. Is there a concentrated push by skeptics to back Di Natale? Should I start one? This was on the front page of The Australian: http://www.stockandland.com.au/story/3639064/greens-mull-rethink-on-gm-crop-policy/?src=rss Count Chocula fucked around with this message at 03:10 on Jan 8, 2016 |
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Jan 8, 2016 03:06
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OMG Count Chocula is back.
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Jumpingmanjim posted:OMG Count Chocula is back. Tan and rested from a summer at the beach!
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Watch out for dem sharks
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Count Chocula posted:Am I too late to talk about how the one big problem I have with the Greens is their oppostion to nuclear power and GMOs, and that I hope di Natale's stance leads to some kind of reevaulation of that? It's such a terrifyingly Luddite position, the idea of cutting off useful avenues of technology that can power cities, save lives, and fight climate change because they don't fit in with a Romantic, Naturalist view of the world. I still vote Green because of refugees, but it's such a huge blindspot, and one that is even more terrifying in a country as isolated as Australia. Have you considered joining the party so you can bring these issues up at your regional group?
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GoldStandardConure posted:Have you considered joining the party so you can bring these issues up at your regional group? I don't want to be an arrogant gadfly and distract them from more important issues like refugees and women's rights, though I will look into it since my area is a hotbed of Green activity. BTW, which AusPol members have been putting up anti-facist posters in my neighborhood with the Ninja Turtles, Betty Boop, Garfield and other icons? And which of you is hosting the forum on the Very Relevant Issue of Trotsky's assasination?
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Anidav posted:Being above the law sounds fun. Only about the laws of poors living on poo poo island.
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SynthOrange posted:Watch out for dem sharks At least sharks are obvious; I'm super paranoid about avoiding bluebottles, though given how many of them there are and how often I go to the beach it's only a matter of time before I taste the Bluebottle Kiss.
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Its fine I got stung and I only had partial paralysis
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you're wrong about nuclear and the fact that you've paired it with gmos is a dead giveaway that you're mostly a fan because of the bizarre first world nerd fetishisation of science and new technology as a substitute for religion and australia will never need and should never use nuclear power hth
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SeekOtherCandidate posted:you're wrong about nuclear and the fact that you've paired it with gmos is a dead giveaway that you're mostly a fan because of the bizarre first world nerd fetishisation of science and new technology as a substitute for religion and australia will never need and should never use nuclear power Nuclear has been proven safe in 99% of cases, and it's clean and efficient energy that will actually address climate change. And it's not 'bizarre first world nerd fetishisation of science' - people in the first world are the ones fighting against GMOs that help feed the 3rd world and vaccinations that free us from disease (see how the biggest number of anti-vaxxers are found in suburbs like Bondi).
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Count Chocula posted:At least sharks are obvious; I'm super paranoid about avoiding bluebottles, though given how many of them there are and how often I go to the beach it's only a matter of time before I taste the Bluebottle Kiss. As someone who has been hit by a blue bottle and a sea urchin, the sea urchin was way worse. Doctor digging around in my foot for ages getting all the snapped of spines out.
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My recollection is that it was like a wasp sting that lasts longer. Bluebottles wasn't that bad.
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Birb Katter posted:As someone who has been hit by a blue bottle and a sea urchin, the sea urchin was way worse. Doctor digging around in my foot for ages getting all the snapped of spines out. That happened to me, too. I believed the Internet that I just needed to soak my foot in vinegar. After 2 months of that, a doctor needed to anesthesize my foot and get the inch-long spine out. So now I know I can handle a bluebottle since it won't be as bad, thanks!
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Anidav posted:Being above the law sounds fun. It almost makes me wish I was a horrible person, it sounds like being a monster has great job security.
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orkin mang let's be friends
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SeekOtherCandidate posted:you're wrong about nuclear and the fact that you've paired it with gmos is a dead giveaway that you're mostly a fan because of the bizarre first world nerd fetishisation of science and new technology as a substitute for religion and australia will never need and should never use nuclear power Agree with you about power, but what are your views on nuclear medicines? Graic Gabtar fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Jan 8, 2016 |
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Count Chocula posted:Nuclear has been proven safe in 99% of cases, and it's clean and efficient energy that will actually address climate change. All of this is true, and yet its still not a good choice for Australia.
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Arent bluebottles more a case of 'the wind blew a bunch of them in from sea' rather than rogue singular ones floating around waiting to sting you? I only ever see them washed up in the hundreds/thousands. rarely do I see just one.
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Zenithe posted:My recollection is that it was like a wasp sting that lasts longer. Bluebottles wasn't that bad. Slightly less painful but longer lasting wasp stings (usually 8-10 in a line) is my experience of them as well.
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We're using half-century old coal burners, hooked up to grids so worthless that not even WA can shill them to the nearest bidder, pumping juice to homes that produce half their total power bill just by having a roof with blue panels on it. Where do you see nuclear in that equation today? Where do you see nuclear in that equation 50 years from now? Where would the money to produce this stuff come from? Not not even that it's not right for Australia, its that the ship has sailed. If the situation had been different in the 50s and 60s maybe we would have nuclear today, but the time has passed and renewables can currently fill the gap while we're on the cusp of fusion.
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Frogfingers posted:We're using half-century old coal burners, hooked up to grids so worthless that not even WA can shill them to the nearest bidder, pumping juice to homes that produce half their total power bill just by having a roof with blue panels on it. Where do you see nuclear in that equation today? Where do you see nuclear in that equation 50 years from now? Where would the money to produce this stuff come from? drat, and you were going so well.
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Frogfingers posted:Not not even that it's not right for Australia, its that the ship has sailed. If the situation had been different in the 50s and 60s maybe we would have nuclear today, but the time has passed and renewables can currently fill the gap while we're on the cusp of fusion. now who's delusional hint: it's you
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